ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (c) for the purposes of elections for councillors, fix— (i) a place or places at which, and a day or days, at least fourteen nor more than twenty-one days after the day of publication of the proclamation, on which a nomination court shall sit in terms of section to receive nominations of candidates for election as councillor; and (ii) a day or days, at least thirty nor more than sixty-three days after the last nomination day fixed in terms of subparagraph (i), on which a poll shall be taken if a poll becomes necessary. Provided that day or days fixed for polling in terms of paragraphs (a)(ii), (b)(ii) and (c)(ii) shall be the same for the Presidential election, general election and elections for the purposes of elections for councillors. [Subsection amended by s. 13 and s. 48 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (2) The polling day or polling days fixed in terms of subsection (1) shall be deemed to be a public holiday or public holidays, as the case may be, for the purposes of the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business [Chapter 10:21]. (3) For the purposes of the appointment and election of Senator Chiefs in terms of the Constitution the President shall, in the proclamation referred to in subsection (1) and after consultation with the Commission, fix the times and places at which and a day or days— (a) between the date of publication of the proclamation and the day or the last day, of the poll for the Presidential election fixed in terms of subsection (1)(a)(ii), on which— (i) each provincial assembly of Chiefs referred to in section 35 of the Traditional Leaders Act [Chapter 29:17], shall convene for the purpose of electing the Council of Chiefs in terms of section 37 of the Traditional Leaders Act [Chapter 29:17]; and (ii) the Council of Chiefs referred to in section 37 of the Traditional Leaders Act [Chapter 29:17] shall convene for the purpose of electing the President and the Deputy President of the Council of Chiefs; and (b) being not earlier than the day or the last day, as the case may be, of the poll for the Presidential election fixed in terms of subsection (1)(a)(ii) and not later than 48 hours after the day or last day, as the case may be, of the election so fixed, on which the electoral colleges shall meet in terms of Part X. [Subsection amended by s. 48 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (4) Subject to Chapter 7 of the Constitution, the President may, by further proclamation in the Gazette, alter any day, time or place fixed in terms of subsection (1) or (3) and the day, time or place as so altered shall be deemed to have been fixed in terms of the appropriate subsection. [Section as substituted by s. 29 of Act No. 17 of 2007 and amended by s. 48 of Act No. 6 of 2014] 38A Designation of national and provincial political party office-bearers for certain purposes and advance filing of certain documents in connection with elections (1) On any of the days in the period starting from the fourth day after the publication of the election proclamation and ending two days before the sitting of the nomination court for the party-list candidates, any political party contesting the election may— (a) provide, through the head office of the Commission, to the provincial elections officer of every province in which the political party is contesting the election, the names of at least three national office-bearers of the party, any two of whom will be authorised to make any countersignature required to be made for the purposes of Part XIA and section 46 in any province in which the political party is contesting the election (that is to say, any countersignature required in connection with the Senatorial party-list candidates, the National Assembly constituency and party-list candidates, and the provincial council party-list seats); and 49